Luminous, that was the name that I gave to this sword, a sword created for one purpose and that is to bring light to this world, its unique existence allowed for fear to be struck in those who opposed me, this sword was forged by me after living for over a millennium, I forged this sword myself to be the only sword I wield .
To bring light, but it seemed that it changed with me changing through ages, it had become a dark blade contaminated with the blood of my enemies and time over time, it might have began to forget, what its actual state was before .
A blade I forged out of my own soul, a blade that had slaughtered enemies more than I can able to count, it kept on slaughtering all those who came my way, I myself after all this killing might have also forgotten what it used to actually look like .
But not any more, the moment the name seemed to be spurted out of my mouth, I felt the happiness that seemed to have taken over the sword at the name being called, I suddenly felt that the sword in my hand began to jump out of happiness .
But that wasn't the only thing going on, the sword in my hand seemed to be releasing some heat all of a sudden, then even with the blindfold obscuring my vision, I began to sense an intense amount of light coming from my right hand, the hand holding the sword that was currently brightly lit, so bright that it ended in obscuring the vision of my opponent and ended up in making her release a loud cry .
Even though the blindfold, I could now see that what I was holding in my hand currently seemed to be short sword made of light, the handle, the cutting edge of the blade, everything was made of light, the blade was no longer seemed to exist physically in my hand, I was holding light energy that was shaped like a sword in hand .
If before everyone were focusing in doing their own thing the sudden transformation of the sword caught the attention of everyone present, I heard gaping voices from all those around me, but the battle was still on, so even though I felt a few things regarding this, I currently didn't want to dwell on it, I looked to where I sensed Momochi-senpai was and raised my sword at here .
For some reason I felt that even though the sword shouldn't have such an effect, I felt that my body suddenly got a lot stronger than before, not only my body that gained a boost, my mind, my confidence, my instincts all seemed to be suddenly boosted and reawakening, I was thrilled with that feeling and get into a ready position with a one thing on my mind, the next move would be the final move to decide the winner .
It seemed that my opponent thought the same as well, I sensed that unlike before, I was currently being targeted by not one but actually three people was in front of me, meaning that unlike her being able to create one clone before, she actually managed to create three this time around, then with indulging in any meaningless conversation, she began to move .
The sword in my hand was still bubbling with happiness, but it didn't mean that I was lowering my guard or anything, actually the moment she moved, the blade in hand suddenly fell silent as if helping me in concentrating a bit more on the matters at hand .
The moment that silence engulfed the scene was also the moment Haruka began to attack, unlike before, even with my eyes being blindfolded, I found out that my senses were much sharper than before, I was having a mental map of some kind, one that actually enabled me to sense every movement she made, not only her real self, but I was able to also see the clones movements too in a quiet clear way .
She was currently aiming to swarm me with her clones from all directions and leave me no room to parry or evade, it wasn't effective before with only her and her clone, but now with adding another clone to the mix, they might be able to achieve success, or this should have been the case, if my sword was still in its dormant state from before .
The three opponents suddenly began to swarm me with attacks from all different kind of angles and directions, slashes, thrusts and chops began to rain down on me, yet only after a round of this rabid attacks, she no longer attacked, no it was better to say that she was no longer able to .
In the first attack, I cleaved off her sword precisely and piece after piece, after the round of strikes from her were over, she no longer had a sword in hand, only the handle, that was how strong my sword was compared to hers, she was currently held under my swordpoint, unable to no longer move, my sword had locked on her, it was one of its unique features together with a crazy sharpness .
Her clones were also dealt with and the sword was aimed at her throat, seeing that she was weirdly fixed in place, she sighed disappointedly and gave up, but then her disappointed tone of voice to one that was strangely cheerful, then she said :
I hope that I have been able to help .
I nodded at her removed the blindfold and said while looking at the newly awakened sword :
" You were of a great help to me, Momochi-senpai, I hope you have gained similar gains to mine .
Out of nowhere, the girl suddenly came close, almost standing next to me, our shoulders were closely touching one another, but the new Momochi seemed to not care in the slightest about that and all of her interest seemed to be aiming at the sword in my hand and she said :
What is this sword of you exactly, it sliced through my sword with quite ease and it also didn't allowed to move once it was aimed at me just now, did you use some dark arts to achieve this or enhanced it in anyway, I'm not complaining, I know that Ryuu could have ended the fight early, if you wanted to .
But I just want to understand how you did it, you didn't use a dark art, right ? .
At her question, I nodded my head and while still at the white energy blade in hand, I said :
" This sword is called Luminous, it had the ability to lock on its target, leaving the space around them so tight, forcing them to be unable to no longer move away from fighting head on, it was a sword and also my only company though ages of loneliness, I needed to endure, so no, I hadn't used a dark art to achieve this effect .
Awesome, awesome .
Looking at the stars glittering in the girl's eyes, I couldn't help but say :
" Would you like to hold it yourself .
Can I really, won't it create a problem, you said that it was quite precious to you and it seemed that the sword think the same about you, it might not like the idea of me holding it .
" Don't worry, believe it or not, the sword will actually listen to me because it was sentinel and even have a piece of my soul resting in it, so don't worry, I'm able to feel that he didn't hold any sort of enmity towards you, here take it .
I extended the hand that was holding the sword to her and actually felt the sword reluctance with me doing this, feeling the link between us grew much stronger than before, I assured it that I wasn't throwing it away, I was merely showing and sharing its brilliance with others, that made the energy in the sword fluctuate more strongly which in return ended in making the girl in front of me a bit wary against the idea of holding it .
But after looking at it intently for a few times, she finally seemed to have made up her mind and she began to extend her hand as well towards the handle and after making sure she was holding it tightly, I let go of the sword, leaving it in her care .
The moment she got hold of the sword, the girl's eyes become wide opened from shock, but then a weird smile plastered itself on her face, she seemed quite amazed but also happy at what she was feeling, I saw her chirping and enthusiastically saying :
Woah, this sword is really amazing Ryuu, it is so light, I'm even beginning to doubt that I wasn't holding anything in my hands at all, how strange, my mind is really unable to tell whether the sword in my hand was actually tangible or not, what the ..... .
Just as was praising the sword, she couldn't help but swing it a few times, actually she only swung it once, then she almost throw the sword away out of fright, the swing she did resulted in the release of an energy slash that ended up splitting the training ground where that energy attack went in half .
I should have warned her about playing with it in this state too much, it had only reawakened its true shape after all, so it was a bit rusty in controlling the raw energy it contained, seeing it about to fell from her hands, I recalled it back to me and it instantly sunk into my body, bonding with my flesh and blood .
Even without the body of the sword in my hand, I felt that I now had become the sword, I'm able to cut whatever and whoever I wanted to with a flick of a finger, this was the most special feature regarding this sword of mine, Fusing .
As the name implied, it can actually fuse with my body and allow me to share all of its properties, I can lock on enemies and my body had an insane sharpness to it, not to mention that I had now gained the ability to release energy attacks from long distance away and from the looks of it, they were quite powerful in their own right .
Yet, even though my my body fused with the sword, it can still act and function exactly in the same way as before, without any sort of a problem, I felt no sense of discomfort from neither my body nor the sword currently fused with me, another superb gain, added to the list of my gains out of this fight .
That was the only way I could describe it, with the awakening of the true state of my sword, a lot of my shortcomings have been compensated for, not to mention the other gains I gained from this sparring session, this gain alone had me quite satisfied beyond measure .
My other gains were less in capability, but not short in terms of value, in fact, I believe that those other gains might have had intertwined and helped in making this possible, those gains laid in me awakening my fighting spirit completely, sharpening my instincts to a superhuman level, my whole body also seemed to have changed for the better, just as I was contemplating about this .
I suddenly saw Momochi bowing her head in front of me and with a quivering voice and body she said :
I'm sorry, Ryuu, I don't know what had gotten into me all of a sudden that made me do something like this, the sword you gave me had disappeared and it was all my fault, I'm sorry, I'm really really sorry .
The girl who had lost her timid personality 15 minutes before, had suddenly regained it once again and this time it was even more severe than before, her tone of voice looked almost as if she was at the verge of tearing up, I seeing her like this, I couldn't help but pat her on the head trying to ease her tensed mind a bit and said :
" Are you talking about this blade .
As I said this, she raised her head and looked at me who was currently holding the sword made completely of light and she was stunned at first, unable to say a word and after a few seconds, all that came out of her mouth were a few murmurs, she said :
But, the blade, just now, it vanished, how .
" Like this .
I said this and in front of her face, the blade disappeared from my left hand and a second later appeared in my right, stunning her completely, making her at loss of words, but after a few seconds she blushed embarrassingly and asked about how was that possible and what exactly happened .
" Well, you almost dropped my precious sword earlier and I didn't want it to touch the ground after it had only reawakened, so I recalled it back to my body, you being still unable to awake from the shock of seeing it in action, kept looking at the gap it made, uncaring of your surroundings, that's all .
Her face flushed even more to the point that I had the illusion that her head was now releasing steam, she kept trying to hide her face with her hands but she was clumsily doing this, so it really didn't work as well in covering her embarrassment as she had probably imagined .
After a few more seconds, she seemed to have finally regained her composure and was looking at the gap that the sword swing of her made, but just as she looked at it, she was startled to see that the gap was no more, she kept looking around with an absent-mind, wondering if all what she had experienced were nothing but an illusion, probably .
Seeing her like this, I couldn't help but flick her on the forehead, forcing her mind to awaken from the weird trance, it was beginning to fall in, telling her that there was no more signs of the huge gap, due to the fact that I had already healed it with my Paradox .
She let out a cry of pain at the sudden hit she got on the forehead, she looked at me with tears in her eyes, but she still nodded, I healed both her and me, then turned around to see all of the people present looking at us with wide eyes .
Even the Captain was no exception this time, the least shocked out of all the people present was Tokiko, it wasn't that she had knowledge of any of this, but she had probably get accustomed to me pulling such stunts .
They were staring at me with wide eyes and mouths, as if they were seeing a unicorn or something, which might actually exist, if I were to take our unique existence into consideration, I thought that someone would be cheering or screaming out of shock suddenly .
At least that was what I had expected, but I was surprised that after a few minutes like this, I saw that they actually turned to one another, shrugged their shoulders after they shook their heads and went back to their training, leaving me with only one thought in mind .
HUH ? .